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From Daniel Boone to Captain America - Playing Indian in American Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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From Daniel Boone to Captain America - Playing Indian in American Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books
of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines
in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the
ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American
culture. In the nineteenth century, American art and literature
developed images of the Indian and the frontiersman that
exemplified ideals of heroism, bravery, and manhood, as well as
embodying fears of betrayal, loss of civilization, and weakness. In
the twentieth century, comic books, among other popular forms of
media, would inherit these images. The Western genre of comic books
participated fully in the common conventions, replicating and
perpetuating the myths and ideals long associated with the frontier
in the United States. A fascination with Native Americans also
emerged in comic books devoted to depicting the Indian past of the
US In such stories, the Indian remains a figure of the past,
romanticized as a lost segment of US history, ignoring contemporary
and actual Native peoples. Playing Indian occupies a definite
subgenre of Western comics, especially during the postwar period
when a host of comics featuring a ""white Indian"" as the hero were
being published. Playing Indian migrates into superhero comics, a
phenomenon that heightens and amplifies the notions of heroism,
bravery, and manhood already attached to the white Indian trope.
Instances of superheroes like Batman and Superman playing Indian
correspond with depictions found in the strictly Western comics.
The superhero as Indian returned in the twenty-first century via
Captain America, attesting to the continuing power of this ideal
and image.
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